Senior UI/UX Designer $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
You're stepping into a validated educational model already delivering measurable results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform underneath, scaling rapidly throughout the US and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and score in top national percentiles. The approach is proven. What's needed now is someone who thinks first about the people within the system.
You'll establish design excellence, create the standards, and construct the function from the ground up. Your scope encompasses our learning platform and its companion learning applications, serving diverse user groups both within Alpha and beyond.
A five-year-old who hasn't learned to read yet is discovering numbers through a system that must transform novelty into playful engagement. A teenager struggling two grade levels behind is recovering confidence after years of setbacks, where a single unclear interaction could trigger regression. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. That transparency reduces worry and transforms them into an effective advocate. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires insight into progress without information overload. You must understand each group intimately enough to design genuinely distinct solutions for each.
Your domain is the experience layer: investigate each audience with genuine rigor, translate your findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately, not presentation materials awaiting review cycles. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers responsible for shipping. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You own the complete cycle.
You'll deploy AI as a force multiplier for faster iteration and broader coverage, but your expertise, not the tool's initial output, determines what ships. Primary focus remains our education platform, with periodic projects in additional domains.
What you will be doing
- Conduct user research across fundamentally different audience segments and develop design principles reflecting that understanding
- Construct and sustain design systems within each product's native UI framework, enabling faster engineering delivery and cumulative design value rather than inconsistency
- Develop functional prototypes enabling product leaders to validate decisions in days rather than weeks
- Evaluate existing products through the user lens: identify experience breakdowns, diagnose engagement costs, determine high-impact opportunities
- Establish design culture: feedback mechanisms, trade-off evaluation frameworks, and quality standards you'll protect
- Collaborate with product leaders and engineers, challenging requests that damage user experience
What you will NOT be doing
- Setting product strategy; product leaders control that domain, you ensure experience aligns with it
- Creating static mockups requiring code translation
- Focusing on a single product; your work spans the entire portfolio
- Executing against defined design briefs; you extract context from unstructured inputs and begin designing with partial information
- Waiting for approval; you possess authority to surface and resolve UX issues independently
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years in product design or UX positions, demonstrating complete ownership from research through production deployment
- Clear evidence of user understanding and research rigor across audiences substantially different from yourself
- Established design expertise in interaction and visual design, with portfolio demonstrating audience-tailored decisions over generic templates, combined with confident design perspectives
- Verified AI-native methodology: rapid iteration capability, evaluative judgment, and willingness to reject initial AI suggestions rather than accepting defaults
- Capability to convert designs into code leveraging AI tools and contemporary frameworks
- Prepared to establish a design function and culture from nothing, not step into existing structures
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